Improved mop



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

JAMES SANGSTER AND MILTON BOYD, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOBS TO JOSEPH B. LIOHTENSTEIN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED MOP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,429, dated June 5, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES SANGsrER and MILTON BOYD, of the city of Buffalo, county of Erie, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on the Mop for which a patent was granted to Mary P. Carpenter, of the same place, on the 23d day of January, 1866; and we do hereby declare th at the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this speciieation, in whichv I Figure l is a side elevation, representing the mop complete. Fig. 2 is a front view of one of the guides: Fig. 3, a plan view of the thumb-piece for adj Listing the pressure of the rollers on the mop-cloth. Fig. 4 represents the way in which the cloth is fastened to the mop.

The nature of our invention consists in the employment of guides to keep the cloth in its place upon the rollers while wringing, and in a device for regulating the pressure of the rollers on the cloth; also in the employment of a cross-bar which connects the lower part of the mop-frame to which the two ends ofthe cloth are fastened.

In Fig. l A represents the common handle to a mop. It is fastened by the screw C to the socket on the fra-me B.

-D is the thumb-piece for regulating the pressure of the rollers upon the cloth. E is the spring against which it presses.

I I are the guides which hold the cloth in place as it moves between the rollers. There are two on each side of the rollers, as is shown by the front view in Fig. 2. They are made of one piece of cast metal, in the form as shown in said Fig. 2, or nearly so, the two projections or lianges I I forming the guides between which the rollers work.

L is a slot between which the pivots ot' the rollers pass. The upper part acts as a box for holding the Lipper or roller F in place. K is also a slot or aperture into which the ends of the spring K are fitted when in place.

P P in Fig. l represent lips or projections on said guide-plates. They clasp each side of the frame when in place, and allow only avertieal movement to be given to them.

The pivots on the lower roller, G, pass through the slot L in the guide-plates and through a hole in cach side of the frame, one pivot terminatingin the handle 'J. These piv ots keep the lower parts ofthe guide-plates in their proper places. The pivots in the upper roller pass only through theslot in the guideplates, so as to allow a vertical movement up and down of the said plates and the roller F, which movement is given either by screwing or unscrewing the thumb-piece D to or from the spring E, or by the inequalities of the cloth while passing between the rollers in the process of wringing.

His a cross-bar.` It is fastened to or cast in one piece with the fra-me B.

In putting on the cloth one end is passed through the rollers, when both of the ends are brought together and sewed or otherwise fastened to the cross-bar H. The rollers are now pressed together with sufficient force to wring the cloth, and the mopis ready for use. 'Ihey maybe constructed eitherr of cast or wrought iron; but malleable cast-iron is preferred as being the best and cheapest.

We do not claim the rollers F G, 4the frame B, and handle J; but

What we do claim as our invention, and de sire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with said rollers F and G, of the guide-plates or their equivalents, when constructed as and for the purposes herein substantially described.

2. In combination therewith, the thumbpiece D, spring E, and bar H, as described.

JAMES SANGSTER. MILTON BOYD.

Witnesses H. B. WILLooX, O. KIEFER. 

